Research Question Project Scope Project Framework

1.3 Objective

The objectives of developing this projects are: • To investigate the feasibility of persuasive mobile diet monitoring application among overweight and obese adolescents in Malaysia • To explore MAR technique in mobile. • To develop an Augmented Reality AR mobile diet monitoring application for windows phone.

1.4 Research Question

In order to achieve the objectives in this project, the research question has been raised as below: a. How AR mobile diet monitoring application can assist in weight management among overweight and obese adolescents in Malaysia? The research question is designed to explore the feasibility of AR technique using in mobile diet monitoring application among Malaysian overweight and obese adolescents and will be discussed further in this project.

1.5 Project Scope

This project is proposed to develop a diet monitoring application for person who concerned with their body health. However, the main targeted users of this project are overweight and obese adolescents. This is because to raise health awareness among adolescents and to avoid overweight and obese adolescents persists their health condition into adulthood. The mobile diet monitoring application is a standalone mobile application that works on Windows Phone 8.0. The whole development of this project is tested using Nokia Lumia 820 with Windows Phone 8.0 operating systemOS. The application may be compatible with others version of Windows Phone OS. Some limitations have been identified in developing this project. First, there is no open source toolkits for Windows Phone to develop a natural feature MAR mobile application. The toolkits for Windows Phone to develop an AR application is limited especially for natural feature detection. The other limitation would be accuracy of the marker detection due to the algorithm and the condition of the environment. At last, due to time constraint, only a few foods will be introduced in this project.

1.6 Project Framework

Figure 1.1 : Project Framework .NET API for Windows Phone Windows Phone Runtime API SLARToolkit XAML C The project framework of this project is shown in Figure 1.1. In the development process of this project, three application programming interfaces API will be used to develop the application. These three API are used to integrate C and XAML to control the device and design the user interface.

1.7 Project Significance